Emigration
to Australia

Assisted Immigrants of the H.I.E.S

Below is a list of all the Bethune and Beaton immigrants that
had assisted passage by the Highland and Island Immigration Society to
Australia during the 1850's. Many of them were seeking relief from the
poverty that was caused by the Highland clearances, and some were forced
to emigrate.

It is ironic that they were displaced by the sheep, and some of them
who had travelled half way round the world would become the protectors
of the animal that replaced them.

List of all Bethune and Beaton families that were assisted Immigrants
to come to Australia by the H.I.E.S

H.I.E.S Family Number

Name

Age

Place of Residence

Land Lord

Promissory Note, Pounds Stirling

Ship, Date and Place of Departure

Date and place of arrival

Notes

10

Peter Beaton

33

Feall

McDonald

9-5-5

Araminta, 20/06/1852, Liverpool

04/10/1852, Geelong

Anne Beaton

30

Wife

Anne Beaton

3

Daughter

67

Roderick Bethune

34

Ullinish

MacLeod of MacLeod

7-12-1

Georgiana, 13/07/1852, Glascow

16/10/1852, Geelong

Eligible couple, fine
healthy girls.

Sarah Bethune

36

Ann Bethune

11

Janet Bethune

9

Mary Bethune

6

Malcolm Bethune

4

148

Alexander Beaton

28

Marrishader

Lord MacDonald

4-10-10

Ticonderoga, 04/08/1852, Liverpool

22/12/1822, Port Phillip

Ship placed in quarantine on arrival

Margaret Beaton

27

161

Angus Beaton

55

Dervaig, Quinish

McLean of Coll

29-18-7 ½

Marmion, 28/08/1852, Liverpool

04/12/1852, Portland Bay

Fine man, healthy
children

Mary Beaton

44

Sally Beaton

22

Donald Beaton

17

Christy Beaton

12

Mary Beaton

10

Mitzi Beaton

6

238

Marion Bethune

52

Uig

Lord Macdonald

29-14-5

Priscilla, 13/10/1852, Liverpool

24/02/1853, Melbourne

Healthy eligible family.

Anne Bethune

27

Murdoch Bethune

24

Christy Bethune

19

Roderick Bethune

11

Anne Bethune

14

Ann Bruce

16

240

Norman Bethune

32

Romisdale

16-14-5

Priscilla, 13/10/1852, Liverpool

24/02/1853, Melbourne

Very good family.

Catherine Bethune

28

Anne Bethune

2

Janet Bethune

4

Died on voyage

Peter Bethune

22

Uig

Ann Bethune

25

Sister of Norman

Finlay Bethune

22

Brother of Norman

353

Norman Bethune

48

Borniskitaig, Kilmuir

Lord MacDonald

23-8-7

HMS Hercules, 26/12/1852

1853, Adelaide

Selected by Skye Committee
to supply defaults in North Uist. Family with exception of Alexander arrived
on Neptune.

Catherine Bethune

44

Lachlan Bethune

18

Christiana Bethune

16

Alexander Bethune

14

1853, Adelaide

Arrived on Olivia

Malcolm Bethune

10

Ann Bethune

8

Isabella Bethune

6

369

Archibald Bethune

51

Skirinish

Lord MacDonald

27-6-8

HMS Hercules, 26/12/1852

Melbourne

First rate family,
all capable of labour. The girls good house servants. The men always accustomed
to herd sheep and cattle.